This reading of The Death of the Critic aims to approach the nature of the problem that occupies critics in their investigation, analysis, and discussion, invoking the transformations that contemporary critical discourse continues to experience. It aims to do this not just on the level of the relationship with the author, the text and the reader, but also in relation to the critic's function in the public sphere. This reading, therefore, is not intended to follow the chapters of the book so as to summarize and review the ideas presented by its author, because such a reading would be only an explanation of the conceptions constructed by the author. Instead, it seeks to understands and interpret the thesis of the book by means of methodological and critical tools, removed from abstraction and airiness, to enrich the questions the books raises, and make them relevant.